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Flashcards by Kendra Saunders, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kendra Saunders
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| Question | Answer |
| Comedy | A humorous play with a happy and/or successful ending; i.e. A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Tragedy | The hero suffers a major downfall A character may face death or a fate worse than death by the end; i.e. Macbeth |
| Tragic Comedy | Blends both comedy AND tragedy The hero dies or suffers a great loss; i.e. Romeo & Juliet |
| Drama | *A serious play *Consequences are not as dire as a tragedy *Sometimes have a happy ending *Trials to get to happy ending are much more difficult; i.e. A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Fables & Folktales | *Specific to culture and/or groups *Help form ideals/norms *Ideals are conveyed through actions of the main character *Generally: *short; do not contain subplots *didactic *anthropomorphized; i.e. Aesop's Fables |
| Trickster Tales | *Features a protagonist who has magical powers * sometimes characterized as a collection of opposites; i.e. The Gingerbread Man. The Tale of the Tricky Fox |
| Parables | *Told in allegories *The whole story is symbolic; i.e. The Emporer's New Clothes |
| Legend & Myth | * Stresses the societies values/ideals as a character *Gives lessons * Usually the story of a hero *May be based on a historical person *Embellishment is used; i.e. Robin Hood |
| Plot | *Sequence of events, where each event affect the next *5 parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution |
| Exposition | The author introduces the readers to the main character |
| Inciting Incident | The protagonist/antagonist concludes with an inciting incident that introduces the main conflict that the protagonist will face. |
| Rising Action | Reveals and reversals |
| Climax | *Major turning point; marked by the main decision that the protagonist needs to make *The inner part of the protagonist is revealed |
| Denouement | Resolution of the story |
| Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces. Conflict provides crucial tension in any story and is used to drive the narrative forward |
| Internal Conflict | *The protagonist struggles against him/herself. Happens in the character's mind/their own decisions. The psychological world of the character--their own feelings, emotions, demons *"Man v. Himself" *Ex: Of Mice and Men, To Kill A Mockingbird |
| External Conflict | Struggle between the character and outside force *Ex: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Old Man and the Sea, Macbeth, The Crucible |
| Man v. Man | Protagonist struggles with another character |
| Man V. Society | The protagonist struggles with a group or moral issues |
| Man V. Environment | The protagonist struggles with nature/weather--much more physical |
| Dialogue | *The conversation between two of more characters *Moves the action forward |
| Monologue | A lengthy speech that one character addresses to others on stage; can be comical or dramatic |
| Soliloquy | Directed toward the audience or at no other character on stage *Allows the audience to see into the character's train of thought *Ex: Hamlet "To be or not to be" |
| What is the function of stage directions? | *They are the instruction for the performance *Help the audience visualize the play *Can convey distance and movement of time |
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